Melinda Ritchie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside. She was previously a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics for the 2019-2020 academic year and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University in 2015-2016.